The Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB) was founded in 2011. Since then, ULAB has hosted an annual conference which aims to give undergraduate students, and recent graduates, a chance to showcase their research. The ULAB 2021 Conference will take place online (platform to be decided), and will be organised by a team of undergraduate students at the University of Aberdeen. Every year, a prize sponsored by the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) is awarded to the best presentation, as voted on by the conference attendees. The prize consists of free LAGB membership for a year and the opportunity to attend and present the research at the following LAGB Annual Meeting with full funding, as well as the option to receive coaching and advice in presenting at academic conferences with a member of the LAGB committee.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. If you have not written an abstract before, you can find a helpful guide to writing an abstract on our website here: https://www.ulab.org.uk/about-ulab

All submissions must fall within the field of linguistics. As this is an undergraduate conference, the bulk of the work for all submissions must have been carried out whilst the author was an undergraduate student of linguistics or a related discipline, and so long as their undergraduate studies were completed no more than three years prior to submitting the abstract. We accept abstracts from students all over the world! You don't have to be studying at a British University to apply, and we gladly welcome abstracts from further afield. All abstract submissions must be in English, but presentations can be in English or BSL. If you wish to present in BSL please email us at ulablinguistics@gmail.com to let us know.

This year there will be three different types of presentation: full-length talks (roughly 15-20 minutes), short talks (roughly 5-10 minutes) and poster presentations, and you will be asked to indicate in the submission form what your preferred presentation type is. 

List of Topics

We accept papers that fall within the field of linguistics. Potential subfields include (but are not limited to):

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Language Acquisition (first, second or third)
• Dialectology
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Corpus Linguistics
• Language Evolution
• Sign Language Linguistics
• Animal Communication
• Neurolinguistics
• Computational Linguistics
• Language Pathology and Language Impairment
• Language Typology
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Translation and Interpretation Studies
• Stylistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Philosophy of Language

Publication

We will aim to publish proceedings from the ULAB 2021 conference, and these will likely be hosted on Zenodo, an open access platform. See here for proceedings from the ULAB 2019 conference: https://zenodo.org/communities/ulab2019/?page=1&size=20

Venue

The conference is hosted by the University of Aberdeen, but will be held online, and the platform has yet to be decided. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ulablinguistics@gmail.com